Nike races to regain China footing as rivals raise their game
HONG KONG -- NikeLab's Shanghai concept store in the city's former French Concession used to draw pilgrimages of Chinese sneaker aficionados and showc
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DeepSeek to lead seed round for robotics startup Winverse AI
DeepSeek also invested US$20.8 million in robotics firm Unitree's Shanghai IPO.
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Mapping the players dominating China’s cleantech space
Mapping China’s cleantech sector: Key players, top investors, and funding insights in one report.
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Mainland Chinese traders boost Hong Kong stock buying for fourth month as AI bets surge
Mainland Chinese investors bought more Hong Kong stocks than they sold for a fourth consecutive month in September, with purchases accelerating despite persistent headwinds from elevated US Treasury yields and oil prices.
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New report shows US chip industry's reliance on China
More than 5% of equipment and materials supplied to US chipmakers originate in China, which also possesses some 90% of the rare earths required to manufacture semiconductors.
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Siemens Opens Factory Testbeds in China to Advance Physical AI
Insider Brief Siemens has opened six factory application scenarios across five plants in China to test and refine physical AI systems in real production environments.
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OpenAI’s GPT-6 may lead to robotics breakthrough as soon as next year: Unitree founder
US start-up OpenAI’s latest advances in artificial intelligence may be a tipping point that leads to a breakthrough for the robotics industry as soon as next year, according to the founder of Chinese giant Unitree Robotics.
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Week Ahead in AI: Report of Decart Acquisition by Amazon, Nvidia Investment in Reflection Talk, Plus Will ‘Super Intelligence’ Term Stick?
Welcome to AI Insider’s The Week Ahead in AI. See the key developments and events we’re watching Oct. 11-17. Weekend AI News Briefs Amazon in Talks to Buy AI Startup Decart for Around $7 Billion, WSJ Reports Reuters reported Amazon is in talks to acquire AI startup Decart in a deal valued at around…
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Mapping US chip supply chain: China accounts for far more than it appears, report says
China accounts for about 5 per cent of the equipment and materials directly supplied to the US chip industry when measured by country of manufacture, but its grip on certain rare earths needed for chipmaking is over 90 per cent, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA).
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TikTok’s Shou Chew expects an AI science breakthrough within three years
TikTok chief executive Shou Chew expects AI to deliver a major scientific breakthrough within two to three years. He named physics, biotech, chemistry and materials science. Chew spoke on Monday at DBS Bank’s Asia Future Forward Conference in Singapore, CNBC reported.
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Microsoft launches a decision model built on Alibaba’s Qwen
Microsoft has released Microsoft-Decision-1, a small model that picks between fixed answer options instead of writing text. Microsoft built it on Alibaba’s open-weight Qwen3.5-9B and then post-trained it, according to the Foundry model card.
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China agrees to curb hybrid car exports to the EU after Beijing talks
China has agreed to moderate its exports of hybrid and plug-in hybrid cars to the EU, which EU trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič said could cut them by more than half. He announced it on Friday in press remarks in Beijing, after the second round of EU-China trade and investment consultations.
The Next Web AI3 min read
DeepSeek’s cost-saving AI may lead to inaccuracy in model performance: research
New research has exposed a potential flaw in the memory-saving technology underpinning DeepSeek’s models, marking a rare challenge to a breakthrough that has helped the Chinese artificial intelligence lab close the gap with US rivals OpenAI and Anthropic with its low-cost approach.
South China Morning Post Tech1 min read
Moonshot faces $700m shareholder dispute ahead of HK IPO
Known for its Kimi models, Moonshot has been in arbitration with Recurrent.ai since 2024.
Tech in Asia1 min read
China’s factories leaping straight into agentic AI and taking it global: Black Lake CEO
China’s manufacturing sector is leapfrogging straight into the era of agentic artificial intelligence and is now exporting that playbook to global supply chains, according to the CEO of Black Lake, a Chinese provider of cloud-based AI tools for factories.
South China Morning Post Tech1 min read
Beijing moves to steady A-share market after sharp tech sell-off
China’s top securities regulator has signalled fresh support for the domestic A-share market, convening a symposium over the weekend as authorities sought to shore up sentiment following a sharp sell-off in technology shares driven by concerns over US sanctions.
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China’s CXMT unveils ‘key progress’ on chip structure pursued by Samsung, SK Hynix
China’s memory chip giant ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) has reported “key progress” in a new structure that rivals Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are also working on to boost memory density.
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China, EU reach agreement to reduce Chinese hybrid vehicle imports
The EU and China reached a deal Friday to reduce China’s shipments of hybrid vehicles to Europe by half.
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